Get file name from URL

Question

Instead of reinventing the wheel, how about using Apache commons-io:

import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;

public class FilenameUtilTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/some/path/to/a/file.xml?foo=bar#test");

        System.out.println(FilenameUtils.getBaseName(url.getPath())); // -> file
        System.out.println(FilenameUtils.getExtension(url.getPath())); // -> xml
        System.out.println(FilenameUtils.getName(url.getPath())); // -> file.xml
    }

}

String fileName = url.substring( url.lastIndexOf('/')+1, url.length() );

String fileNameWithoutExtn = fileName.substring(0, fileName.lastIndexOf('.'));

If you don't need to get rid of the file extension, here's a way to do it without resorting to error-prone String manipulation and without using external libraries. Works with Java 1.7+:

import java.net.URI
import java.nio.file.Paths

String url = "http://example.org/file?p=foo&q=bar"
String filename = Paths.get(new URI(url).getPath()).getFileName().toString()

This should about cut it (i'll leave the error handling to you):

int slashIndex = url.lastIndexOf('/');
int dotIndex = url.lastIndexOf('.', slashIndex);
String filenameWithoutExtension;
if (dotIndex == -1) {
  filenameWithoutExtension = url.substring(slashIndex + 1);
} else {
  filenameWithoutExtension = url.substring(slashIndex + 1, dotIndex);
}